-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Sure, I'll send it offlist. If anybody else wants it/wants to host it, lemme know. Just keep in mind I did tune this for my own system (drivers included).
"Yousef A. Marafi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you send me your .conf? On 8/2/07, Dan E wrote: > -- > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > I may have actually been able to cure this on my server o.O Yesterday I was > doing lots of tweaks that I could find, and afterwards, the time I spent > definitely showed. The server did not have any hitches, lower pings, no tick > drops; it was absolutely splendid :) And this was during a 10man 100tick > scrim (two times). While it may not prove the same for you, I thought that > I'd share my experiences with you guys in hopes that it can help you. > > First off, I am running CentOS 5 with a custom-compiled 2.6.22 kernel > (dynamic/tickless, 1000hz (though it doesn't really matter with a tickless > kernel), HPET, CFQ, and low-latency patch). You can get the low latency > patch here: http://people.redhat.com/mingo/realtime-preempt/ I think this > may have been the trick that actually did it, but I did a lot yesterday so I > can't be sure. If you apply it, make sure that you have the "Complete > Preemption" mode selected under "Processor types and features". > > I added some optimization flags while compiling the kernel, but I'm not sure > how much it will do (I'm not *that* big on development): > CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -ffast-math" > > I added the following entries to /etc/sysctl.conf (easiest to do :P): > net.core.rmem_max = 16777216 > net.core.wmem_max = 16777216 > net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4096 87380 16777216 > net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 4096 65536 16777216 > > > I also disabled access times (for both files and folders) on my ext3 root > partition. > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 1 > 1 > > Srcds is running with nice of -10, but I'm not sure how much that really > affects it. > > That's all that I can remember off the top of my head, but it has definitely > made an improvement for me. If you want, I can post up my kernel .config. > Hope it helps! :) > > Dan > > > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
